Improvement in whip-sockets



W. W. RICHARDSON.

Whip-Sockets.

Patented June 9,1874.

UNITED STATES PATENT GEEIGE.

VILLIAINI RICHARDSON, OF VVESTFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALFHIS RIGHT TO GEORGE L. LAFLIN, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN WHIP-SOCKETS.

Specification forming part of Leit` rs Patent No.715l,798, dated June 9,1874; application filed March 14, 1874.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WVILLIAM WARREN RICHARDSON, of Westfield, Hampdencounty, State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements inWhip-Sockets, of which the following is a specification:

The objects and nature of my invention are fully illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, of which- Figure I is an outside view of mysocket; Fig. II, a vertical section, showing the socket holding a Whip;and Fig. III is an end view.

B is the barrel `of the socket, which I form of sheet metal, and so asto taper from its mouth to its apex d, which I leave open to permit theescape of water, and, being formed of sheet metal, I am able toconstruct it ofa single sheet, having the overlapping edges properlysecured. By means of extending the taper to form a cone or pyramidalholder of unusual length, I am enabled to dispense with the necessity oflit-tin g a bottom to the socket, as the smallest whip-handle will finda bearin g before reaching the bottom of the socket, while of necessitya larger whip-handle will bear at a point nearer its mouth.

In order to secure the whip from being girdled by the mouth of thesocket, or from jolting out of it, I provide the mouth with springs, asshown in the drawing, which bear against the whip-handle to hold it.

The mouth b I make large enough to admit the butt of the largest-sizedwhip, while the butt of the smallest-sized .carriage or riding one willbear against the tapering sides at a The tapering whip-socket B, ofsheet metal,

having springs b, all combined` as described. WILLIAM WARREN RICHARDSON.Witnesses:

R. F. HYDE, G. L. LAFLIN.

